I'm bored, waiting for my wife to get off work. So, here's the second old "Daily Heads"-inspired writing sample. A short story that I'll spend the rest of my life trying to turn into an ad for root beer or mutual funds or whatever.

I'm trying to put the story in the "Extended Entry" section. My apologies if I screw it up.

The next championship is the be held from
March 23rd to March 28th 2006

The World Ice Golf Championship all started in Uummannaq, Greenland and the championship has been held there since 1997 when the iceconditions has peritted it.
 
Greenland Golf Website

We're getting closer and closer to the Jetsons. I post the following two articles as proof.

In the next few months, an artificial brain called Cyc will make its online debut. Cyc features a human trait no other AI system has managed to imitate...common sense.

Scientists have successfully induced suspended animation in mice that don’t normally hibernate. Future testing may result in the ability to place individuals in suspended animation for long distance space travel.

The Terminator...Matrix...2001, A Space Odyssey. Any of these ring a bell? I'll be at the bar.

Like the onion but not quite.

Click here, then scroll down to "America: F**k Yeah!" for the remix version. Click here for the original.

This post is brought to you by Brian Murphy.

It's always interesting, and also slightly unsettling to learn about pop culture phenomena that I had previously been oblivious to. (I just found out about the Star Wars Kid a couple weeks ago) On that topic, I saw a show about these ladies on HBO, and now I've seen they're nominated for a Webby Award.

Why post a link? As their site mentions...Part alternative community and part pin-up showcase of more than 630 fantastic tattooed and pirced bad girls, from Finland to Columbia"

How's that?

To the four readers we have...I was serious last week about posting other cities. Now, that we have Manhattan and Charlotte editions, let's see if we can get some more cities.

Want to have a weekly column?

Want to be read by at least a half dozen guys that write for a blog?

Want to waste about fifteen minutes every Friday?

Live in Chicago? Bay Area? Vegas? Write the YBNBY.com Weekend Guide for your city, and e-mail it to:

weekendguide@jellio.com

Let's see how many cities we can get.

E-Mail, Texts Harm Intelligence More Than Cannabis, Study Shows
2005-04-22 06:08 (New York)

By Kathrine Jebsen Moore
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Constant e-mailing and text
messaging reduces mental ability by 10 IQ points, a more severe
effect than smoking cannabis, by distracting the brain from
other tasks, a University of London report showed....

If I'm gonna rip them off, I should at least say who they are.

And to start...Chamboultout, only because it shows how the world is becoming smaller via the the same blog posts.

Even if they are in French.

Strap your vegan feedbag on and celebrate Earth Day today, but watch out because Mother Nature is going to wash away some of that damn pollen with some severe thunderstorms tonight.

Don't sleep late tomorrow, U2 tickets will go on sale at 10am and will probably be gone by a quarter to 11.

If the weather holds up, go walk around either the Arts & Soul Festival in Historic South End or the Animal Planet Expo in front of Discovery Place.

Go see Jonathan Larson's other musical "Tick Tick Boom" at the Charltote Actor's Theatre.

Or Stephen Chow's film "Kung Fu Hustle" which opens in various theatre's around Charlotte today.

Ok, here's some inspired lunacy from the "If Darth Vader had a Blog" file...

http://darthside.blogspot.com/

Your Daily Art is a blog that gives you a little mini-art lesson every day.

First of all, Happy Earth Day. Take part in some of the fun today and tomorrow at the Earth Day Fair on Vanderbilt Avenue outside Grand Central.

The Tribeca Film Fest is in full swing, and tonight the Tribeca Drive-In opens outside the World Financial Center. Tonight's movie...Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Get up early tomorrow and go online at 9:00am on Saturday if you want tickets to The Killers, Modest Mouse, David Byrne or any of the other Central Park Summerstage concerts.

You've been saying for weeks that you'd like to get a dog. Check out the Barney's windows all day Saturday for the North Shore Animal League Adoptathon.

Or, just watch the NFL Draft for 48 straight hours.

Brandon Routh, soon to be the new Superman, has been revealed in costume for the first time. Looks pretty good too. I like that they're going with the Golden Age/Fleischer cartoon style Supes.

See a hi-res photo here.

I tell you, that "Create your own south park character" site is dangerous. Dangerous, I tell you. But I can't take credit for this, it's the work of my friend Adam. He, naturally, will be there on opening day with me.

And, yes, I promise one day I'll post a non-Star Wars entry.

The nice thing about downloading this Star Wars fanflick is that you can skip through the sub-high-school acting and watch the incredible space and landscape sequences. I mean, honestly, what CAN'T you do with a MAC nowadays...

http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/revelations.html